Film Society: Join us for a preview of the new 4K restoration of Robert Bresson’s Four Nights of a Dreamer on Thursday, November 6!
This event is free and exclusive to Film Society members (including OKCMOA Fellow, Friend, and Sustainer members). Not a Film Society member? Click here to learn more and join today!
Join the OKCMOA Film Society for an exclusive reception in the Theater Lobby, then head into the Noble Theater for a special screening of Robert Bresson’s Four Nights of a Dreamer, followed by a conversation led by President and CEO Michael J. Anderson, PhD, and Director of Film Programming Lisa Broad, PhD. This exclusive preview of the new 4K restoration will kick off a four-film retrospective of newly restored and rarely seen movies by the French filmmaker which will screen on consecutive Saturdays starting November 8.
EVENT SCHEDULE
6:30 pm | Film Society reception with desserts by Kam’s Kookery in the Theater Lobby
7 pm | Introduction and screening of Four Nights of a Dreamer in the Noble Theater, followed by a conversation led by President and CEO Michael J. Anderson, PhD and Director of Film Programming Lisa K. Broad, PhD.
ABOUT THE FILM
Four Nights of a Dreamer
Robert Bresson | 1971 | In French with English subtitles | 82 minutes
“The rarely screened Four Nights of a Dreamer is Robert Bresson’s great forgotten masterpiece, a stark yet haunting ode to romantic idealism and the capriciousness of love. Adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “White Nights,” Four Nights follows Jacques (Guillaume des Forêts), a lonely artist who roams bohemian Paris in search of the girl of his dreams. One night he saves a beautiful young woman, Marthe, from plunging into the Seine in despair over her rejection by an avoidant lover (Maurice Monnoyer). Jacques compassionately attempts to reunite Marthe with her beau, but his feelings for his new friend soon become less than platonic and his investment in her personal drama far from selfless. Four Nights of a Dreamer has been called the French master’s “loveliest” work: with his signature minimalism, Bresson films the shimmering beauty of nocturnal Paris as it enfolds his characters in endless possibility—subtly capturing the wonder of unexpected connection and the mystery of fate. – Janus Films”
